[Kde-accessibility] KDE-accessibility/Qt AT-SPI

[Dan Miner]

I'm glad to hear that a common ground appears to be coming out the 
work.  I'm becoming very interested in accessibility on a personal front 
because I'm nearing the end of my vision.  Is there some resources you 
could mention for a developer starting out on building and eventual coding?

I'm a software developer myself and I'm starting to find serious need 
for screen magnification and reading now.  Last time I tried, I couldn't 
get the latest code to ever build and then no clues even how to get 
stuff submitted.

    Regards,
       Dan


Olaf Schmidt wrote:
> Hi Jeremy,
>
> thanks a lot for offering to contribute to KDE Accessibility.
>
> As you already wrote, Qt had an accessibility framework that can be used to 
> make Qt and KDE applications accessible with Orca or other assistive 
> technologies. One Trolltech developer (Harald Fernengel) even wrote a D-Bus 
> interface for it:
> http://labs.trolltech.com/page/Projects/Accessibility/QDBusBridge
>
> See also:
> http://labs.trolltech.com/page/Projects/Accessibility/IAPoke
> http://labs.trolltech.com/page/Projects/Accessibility/QDasher
>
> This interface could be used by Orca. But it would need to be completed and 
> bug-fixed to achieve the full results, and in the meantime, it has become clear 
> Gnome is now also moving to D-Bus for their accessibility framework.
>
> It would make a lot of sense to rework Harald's code to use the same D-Bus 
> interfaces as Gnome.
>
> The timing is very good to get involved now, since it has become clear at last 
> that a common approach with Gnome is possible. Important decisions about the 
> Free Software accessibility architecture have been made (namely, Gnome's D-Bus 
> move).
>
> Gunnar and I spent a lot of time on KDE Accessibility in the past, but we are 
> now at a point where we simply do not have the time any more to continue with 
> this very important work. But I promise to help you as much as I can (by 
> answering questions and maybe by helping with the testing) if you wish to 
> continue with the work started by Harald, Gunnar and myself.
>
> Olaf
>
>
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